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Citations: An Enquiry into Literature in Art (online, 5 Jun 21)
online / University College London, Jun 05, 2021 Registration deadline: Jun 4, 2021
Chloe Julius, University College London
This conference looks at the relationship between literature and art, specifically visual artists who incorporate literary sources into their work. It is motivated by an interest in how these interven- tions put pressure on the practice of art history, and how they provoke a reconsideration of metho- dologies of visual analysis. Guided by the work of Elaine Reichek, who will give the keynote address, the conference will also situate the role of citational practices within the broader context of postmodernism.
By posing this methodological problem, the conference will stage an unlikely meeting of minds, including protagonists such as Glenn Ligon, Mary Shelley, Frank O'Hara, Gertrude Stein, Stéphane Mallarmé and David Wojnarowicz. Through a series of papers, the following questions will be posed: what happens to a work of art when literature is cited? How seriously should we take litera- ture's presence within this work? How do we write about it? Is interdisciplinarity our only model for analysis or is there another approach? The ambition for this conference is to cultivate a dia- logue with those for whom these questions might resonate.
PROGRAMME 10.30
Introduction
Michael Green & Chloe Julius Panel One | Scenes of Reading Chair: Chloe Julius
11.00
"The Endless Oceans of / Dilapidated Crossing": Frank O'Hara and Mario Schifano, New York, 1964
Matthew Holman 11.20
A Language of Recalcitrance: Gertrude Stein, Lis Rhodes, and Syntactical Play Hannah Kahng
11.40
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"Criminal, loner, drifter" — metonymic citation in the collages of David Wojnarowicz Louis Shankar
12.00
Writing New Narrative(s): Literature, Identity, and the Performative Turn Justin Polera
12.20
Panel discussion and Q&A Break
Panel Two | Between the Lines Chair: Matthew Holman 13.10
Illegible Histories: Art and Erasure in Contemporary China Ros Holmes
13.30
Translating Ghérasim Luca's Ontophony Austin Carder
13.50
"My Funny Verlainetine": Queer Citations Across (Post)Modernisms in Ray Johnson's Mail Art Brian T. Leahy
14.10
Marcel Broodthaers's Citations of the Mallarmean "Diagram"
Andrew Chesher 14.30
Panel discussion and Q&A Break
Panel Three | Communing with the Dead Chair: Michael Green
15.30
Return of the Repressed Laurie Rojas
15.50
"Was there anything so real as words?": Allen Ruppersberg's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' Jennie Waldow
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16.10 On Monsters Ivan Knapp 16.30
Panel discussion and Q&A Break
17.30-19.00
Keynote by Elaine Reichek
Keynote bio: Elaine Reichek has been using thread as a core element in her work since the early 1970s, and was an early pioneer among conceptual artists in rethinking the role of craft in the fine arts and investigating alternative narratives and histories. Her most recent solo exhibitions include Between the Needle and the Book at McClain Gallery, Houston, TX (2020); Sight Unseen at Marinaro, New York (2019); Now If I Had Been Writing This Story at Vienna Secession (2018);
Invisible Citings at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, in collaboration with sculptor Jeanne Silverthorne (2017); and Minoan Girls at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (2016). Reichek lives and works in New York
Register via Zoom:
https://ucl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sA9Nb4YaRJGsrLo_6mc93A
Reference:
CONF: Citations: An Enquiry into Literature in Art (online, 5 Jun 21). In: ArtHist.net, Apr 29, 2021 (accessed Feb 27, 2022), <https://arthist.net/archive/33973>.
